When The People of the Gun contemplate criminals and crazies it reaffirms their belief that they need firearms to protect themselves and their families from evil. Anything that reduces that ability is A) dangerous and B) unconstitutional. When gun control advocates (and plenty of just plain folks) hear about a crime—especially one involving a gun—it reaffirms their belief that guns are too dangerous to allow “in the wild.” They believe civilian disarmament’s best for A) them and B) society. Bottom line: there is no middle ground. As we saw today in California, the battle lines have been drawn. This is going to get real ugly real fast. Meanwhile, more news from the front . . .

Bruce Krafft sends in video [above] of gunnies in line an hour before the civilian disarmament hearing at the MN State Capital.

Check out this url from usatoday.com: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/02/07/nra-interferes-with-atf-operations/1894355/ The headline’s no better: NRA actively worked to weaken gun law enforcement

nydailynews.com inadvertently shoots down the idea that one person with a gun [above] can’t make a difference against a tyrannical government:

After a bomb destroyed her home in Aleppo, killing her 7-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son, an English teacher vowed to take revenge on President Bashar al-Asaad’s troops. She is now one of the few women on the frontlines of the bloody conflict. ‘Now, I will not forget my children’s blood,’ she pledged, ‘and I promise to take revenge.’

Who doesn’t? Department of Homeland Security wants 100 orders of 100,000 rounds of hollow point nine and .40 and 40 orders of 100,000 rounds of ball nine. marketplace.fedbid.com

Don writes: “Check out some of the hardware in use by out local law enforcement in this gallery as they search for one of their own. They seem to have a little bit of everything! ARs Mini’s, MP5s….. And are those harbor cops using suppressed ARs/M4s? It must be rougher than I remember at the harbor.”

Glock-like trigger spreads to all S&W semis. “The new M&P pistol ad in Guns and Ammo March 2013 issue states: ‘Positive, Tactile Trigger Reset.’ So it looks like S&W is finally producing all the M&P’s with the same trigger pull/reset [like] the Shield’s: the Performance Center sear, a new slide stop assembly and a revision to the trigger bar.” Smith & Wesson forum

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Your legislature knew before they passed it that NYers didn’t want anything like the SAFE Act. Why do you think they rammed it through with no discussion? They clearly don’t care what the citizens or a bunch of county-level politicians think.

Is it? Or are all the big talking “you’ll take my guns out of my cold dead hands” nuts going to roll over and do exactly nothing when some sanity is brought to gun legislation in this country?

What have all the blowhards in New York done lately? Haven’t seen much armed resistance there when the man took their mags and guns away, have you? Big talk is real cheap for mall ninjas everywhere it seems.

I know you think armed citizens are ticking time bombs Hmmmmmmm but they are actually calm, rational people who sincerely want to avoid using force if at all possible, which is as it should be. The armed citizens of New York will attempt to stop New York’s unconstitutional legislation in the courts first because that is the right, good, and decent thing to do. If that doesn’t work, then they will use force if necessary to defend their rights. And that is the entire reason for the existence of the Second Amendment.

And before you go all crazy about the possibility of New York citizens using force to defend their rights, please note that the State is NOT God. The State exists to secure everyone’s right to life, liberty, and property. When the State endeavors to confiscate good citizens’ rights to life, liberty, and/or property, the people have an obligation to oppose such illegal, immoral, and unjustifiable action.

If that isn’t biased reporting, I don’t know what is. “Like something out of the wild west”? Where do these people get their silly notions?

And the way the whole thing was presented just smacks of anti-gun bias: The poor little town of Oak Harbor “threatened” by the big, bad SAF. No, how about the SAF looking out for the constitutional rights of people who want to be able to defend themselves?

> After a bomb destroyed her home in Aleppo, killing
> her 7-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son, an
> English teacher vowed to take revenge on President
> Bashar al-Asaad’s troops. She is now one of the few
> women on the frontlines of the bloody conflict. ‘Now,
> I will not forget my children’s blood,’ she pledged, ‘and
> I promise to take revenge.’

The day the bomb struck her home, killing her two young children, the English teacher vowed to have her revenge.

Now nicknamed “Guevara” after Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, the 36-year-old woman has become a shadowy fixture on the rooftops of Aleppo, Syria, where she aims her Belgian FN rifle at government troops.

In recent months, Syria’s largest city has become the epicenter of the country’s civil war, and Guevara is one of the few women firing a gun on the frontlines as the conflict rages.